top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-04-04

Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/04/google-begins-testing-its-augmented-reality-glasses/

14 years ago

477 upvotes – 288 comments

Throw Out Everything You Know About Ads

http://blog.ads.pof.com/2012/04/03/throw-everything-you-know-about-ads-out-the-window-pics-inside/

14 years ago

407 upvotes – 118 comments

The Royal Canadian Mint just announced a new alternative to BitCoin

http://developer.mintchipchallenge.com/

14 years ago

358 upvotes – 169 comments

Show HN: Clutch.io helps you build iOS apps fast and update them instantly

https://clutch.io/

14 years ago

290 upvotes – 88 comments

Google Announces Project Glass

https://plus.google.com/111626127367496192147/posts

14 years ago

272 upvotes – 102 comments

Notch's Specification for the In-Game DCPU-16

http://0x10c.com/doc/dcpu-16.txt

14 years ago

263 upvotes – 172 comments

Just how big are porn sites?

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/123929-just-how-big-are-porn-sites

14 years ago

251 upvotes – 105 comments

I'm Sure It Will Only Take You A Few Days To Code

http://danshipper.com/non-technical-people-cant-estimate-developmen

14 years ago

221 upvotes – 114 comments

Mozilla: Are We Slim Yet?

https://areweslimyet.com/

14 years ago

212 upvotes – 98 comments

Redditors who are rich (net worth $1 million+) - how did you get rich?

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/rqejz/redditors_who_are_rich_net_worth_1_million_how/

14 years ago

202 upvotes – 172 comments

Yahoo announces 2,000 job cuts

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/yahoo-statement-131500015.html

14 years ago

182 upvotes – 144 comments

Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs and counting

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/04/flashback-trojan-reportedly-controls-half-a-million-macs-and-counting.ars

14 years ago

179 upvotes – 117 comments

You Really Should Log Client-Side Errors

http://openmymind.net/2012/4/4/You-Really-Should-Log-Client-Side-Error/

14 years ago

177 upvotes – 51 comments

What If Your Emails Never Went to Gmail and Twitter Couldn't See Your Tweets?

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/a-privacy-manifesto-in-code-what-if-your-emails-never-went-to-gmail-and-facebook-couldnt-see-your-status-updates/255414/

14 years ago

173 upvotes – 81 comments

Rich Hickey on Datomic: Datalog, Databases, Persistent Data Structures

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/hickey-datomic

14 years ago

158 upvotes – 11 comments

Programming is hard, let's go scripting..

http://www.perl.com/pub/2007/12/06/soto-11.html?page=1

14 years ago

151 upvotes – 94 comments

EU: Possession/distribution of hacking tools to be made a criminal offence

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pressroom/content/20120326IPR41843/html/Hacking-IT-systems-to-become-a-criminal-offence

14 years ago

136 upvotes – 95 comments

C-based Virtual Machine for Notch's DCPU-16

https://github.com/swetland/dcpu16/blob/master/dcpu.c

14 years ago

★ 223 C
128 upvotes – 89 comments

Hit Shift key 4x on a NYTimes article and see what happens

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/04/health/doctor-panels-urge-fewer-routine-tests.html?_r=3&partner=MYWAY&ei=5065#p[MpaBtc]

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 60 comments

Be Specific (especially during PG's office hours)

http://lesswrong.com/r/lesswrong/lw/bc3/sotw_be_specific/

14 years ago

113 upvotes – 30 comments
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